Reviews for this film from our members:
- Luke Bonanno @ DVDizzy.com
- Excerpt: The Raven crafts a reasonably creative and involving mystery around Edgar Allan Poe and his works. It kind of plays out like a less flashy, less visceral version of the new Sherlock Holmes movies, so if you like those and can tolerate some gore, it’s in your interest to check this out.
- Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
- Samuel Castro @ Ochoymedio.info [Spanish]
- Excerpt: No logra esta película hacer el homenaje que se merece una figura de la altura de Edgar Allan Poe
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Jim Dixon @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: “The Raven” is a dizzyingly energetic suspense thriller set during the last days of Edgar Allan Poe’s life in nineteenth century Baltimore. Director James McTeigue gets our attention immediately with the Baltimore police arriving at a gruesome crime scene in horse-drawn carriages with an energy most modern cop shows would envy. Poe, as played by John Cusack, is everything your high school English teacher wanted him to be and more: brilliant, charismatic, mercurial, alcoholic. McTeigue has a well-deserved reputation for being flashy. Here he’s stylish and moody. This is more like vintage Hammer Films on speed and steroids. Villains in slouch brim hats and swirling capes are barely glimpsed by the amber glow of oil lanterns through pea soup fog. The movie gallops over the occasional lapse in logic like a runaway horse.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Cynthia Fuchs @ PopMatters
- [New – 11/22] | Kimberly Gadette @ doddle
- Excerpt: Poe, not Conan Doyle? Cusack, not Downey? No wit, no fun, no engaging derring do? Beg pardon, Watson, we’ve stumbled into some foggy crime detective clone, 40 years too early. Best to move along …
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Daniel Kelly @ eFilmCritic
- Glenn Lovell @ CinemaDope.com
- Piers Marchant @ Sweet Smell of Success
- John P. McCarthy @ CatholicNew 6/14s.com
- Amir Siregar @ Flick Magazine [Indonesian]
